Artist's impression of a split beam with vitamin B12 in a liquid jet. Scientists have developed a new X-ray technique that can capture ultrafast molecular changes in extremely dilute liquid samples - a breakthrough that…
Nano-coating makes coaxial cables lighter
Rice University scientists replace metal with carbon nanotubes for aerospace use [caption id="attachment_7474" align="alignright" width="300"] Rice University research scientist Francesca Mirri holds a standard coaxial data cable (bottom) and a new cable with an outer…
Radio testing of BepiColombo orbiter
[caption id="attachment_7470" align="alignnone" width="700"] Source: ESA–G. Porter, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO[/caption] If ESA’s Mercury orbiter of the BepiColombo mission seems to stand at an unusual angle above its test chamber floor, that’s because it does…
NASA Remembers Its Fallen Heroes, 30th Anniversary of…
[caption id="attachment_7464" align="alignnone" width="985"] NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and his wife Alexis lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier as part of NASA's Day of Remembrance, Friday, Jan. 31, 2014, at Arlington…
UW-Madison researchers find Zika virus in Colombia, look…
[caption id="attachment_7460" align="alignnone" width="599"] Transmission electron micrograph of Zika virus. CYNTHIA GOLDSMITH/CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION - See more at: http://news.wisc.edu/uw-madison-researchers-find-zika-virus-in-colombia-look-for-ways-to-stop-it/#sthash.Z6sxI14X.dpuf[/caption] MADISON - In October 2015, a team of researchers at the University of…